February 7, 2013. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (a member of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation) is to supply three bulldozers to the state-run Chukotka Airports, the corporation’s press officer reports. It is reported that the vehicles have already been manufactured, but they will only be delivered in the spring so that the bulldozers could arrive in the Far Eastern port by the time the sailing season starts. From there, these will be taken to their final destinations. The B-10M bulldozers will be used at the airports in Chukotka’s smack villages where only air travel is

February 7, 2013. Railway Carriage-Builders Union, a non-profit partnership of railway vehicle manufacturers, held a general meeting in Moscow. The partnership comprises the country’s leading producers such as Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation, Tver Railway Carriage-Building Plant, AltaiWagon, RKTM, Tikhvinsky and Novokusnetsk Railway Carriage-Making Plants, and a number of others. This meeting proved a significant event for the partnership on the whole and for its member enterprises in particular. The main point on the agenda had to do with adopting the new development

February 7, 2013. According to the statistical data available, about 10% of Sverdlovsk Region population live below the poverty line, head of SverdlovskStat Elena Kutina said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. Now according to Sverdlovsk Region Government’s decree, the cost of living was estimated at 7,005 RUR for the first quarter of 2013. For working individuals, this comes to 7,626 RUR, for retirees, the figure came to 5,608 RUR, and for children, the cost of living was estimated at 6,646 RUR.

February 7, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court looked into 1,022 insolvency applications in 2012, most of which had to do with the companies in the communal housing services sector, Presiding Judge Svetlana Tsvetkova announced at a press conference. The number of applications is reported to grow quite noticeably. Last year, proceedings commenced on 884 cases against 725 in 2011, resulting in a 27% increase in the arbitration court judges’ workload. ‘Mostly, these are the companies in the communal housing services sector. Unfortunately, we have to admit that this trend does not seem to

February 7, 2013. According to data supplied by the Ural Customs Administration of Russia’s Federal Tax Service (excluding the data provided by the Customs’ Energy Department). Sverdlovsk Region’s foreign trade turnover came to $11,069.3m (in current prices) in January-November 2012, which was 7.1% more than in January-November 2011. These data do not cover the export and import that did not get officially registered by the authorities. This information was carried by SverdlovskStat’s press service recently. If one analyzes these statistical data, it will become clear that the share of export